Culum BrownSotong (right) shows a female face on the side facing the male and male faces on the side facing the female.
Many things can we learn from the wild, it is natural but unique. And the most important is that you can gain wisdom from the observation of nature. As we learned today about animal cuttlefish. Cuttlefish, the incoming class of molluscs fauna and is often called the cuttlefish, have a unique behavior. Males of this species come into being two faces to win the competition to get females to marry. It was revealed from the results of research Culum Brown, a marine biologist from Macquarie University in Australia.
Two faces in question is female and male faces. Before mating, the cuttlefish body facing the female has retained a male face. While parts of the body facing the other males altered female face. "With cunning, males spend more time to convince females to marry before being discovered by other males," Brown was quoted as saying by LiveScience, Tuesday (03/07/2012).
"Two Faces" slide was first discovered when researchers do research on the species Sepia plangondi laboratory. Scientists found a strange pattern in the form of a distinctive mottled pattern betina.Untuk investigate, scientists then look cuttlefish photo collection consisting of 138 individual males.
Research shows that 39 percent of the male individual photo shows the two faces. Researchers found that two faces komuflase only occurs when there are two males and one female in one area tertentu.Menurut Brown, komuflase two faces will make other males think there are two females so confused for memilih.Komuflase is quite risky. If other males know, then it could be two males fighting and one of them lost mating opportunities.The results published in the journal Biology Letters
Regards, Dwi Hartoyo, SP
REFERENCES
1. LiveScience
2. http://sains.kompas.com/read/2012/07/04/14070147/Sotong.Menjelma.Jadi.Dua.Wajah.Sebelum.Kawin
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